Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

I am correcting myself here:  I tried to use the same terms as Muraoka as I 
was
refering to his grammar.  But the dagesh qal is dagesh lene, not plene.  
Second,
your question was about dagesh in general, not gemination.  It still should be
treated as two separate questions, though.

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Yitzhak Sapir  wrote:
> What you're asking in linguistic terms is: is gemination phonemic?
[...]
> The question should be considered separately for the dagesh forte (the
> doubling/gemination) and dagesh plene (the one in bgdkpt, which is what
> you have in your example).

Yitzhak Sapir